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Use in varieties of Scots

stalks Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 2.1 1.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences64 1 1 0 0 0
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of stalks in Corpus

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Central

Niven, Liz Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central, poetry
Ma een wir oan stalks at the hooses oan stilts; on page 5

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
e kitchen windae, een oot oan stalks, eyeballin big beefie hucklin on page 1

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
strae mattrass, an peel their stalks wi care tae mak winter wicks on page 56

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Makkin a muckle o a mickle, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
. The outside leafs an coorse stalks o the cabbitch an cauliflouer
1 matches

Doric

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
in Ye teeger stalks Ye stag gairds Ye bear taunts on page 3

1 matches

Orkney

Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
blades slash throo dry golden stalks, on page 95

1 matches

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